Mass blackouts as tropical storm nears Australian coast

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Katy Watson Australia correspondent Reporting fromThe Gold Coast EPA More than 300,000 properties are without power as a tropical storm edges closer to Australia’s east coast, lashing the region with heavy rain. Storm Alfred has been downgraded from a cyclone to a tropical low, but local authorities have warned that the threat it poses is … Read more

Russian strike kills 11 in Dobropillya town near Donetsk, Ukraine says

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At least 11 people were killed and 30 injured in a Russian strike on Dobropillya, a town in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, Ukrainian authorities say. Eight residential buildings and an administrative building were damaged in the attack late Friday, the regional emergency service reported. The town lies north-west of Russian-held Donetsk city. The report also … Read more

Remains of Canadian serial killer’s victim found in landfill

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The remains of an indigenous woman murdered by a serial killer have been found after a search of a landfill in the Canadian province of Manitoba, police say. Morgan Harris’ remains were recovered at the Prairie Green Landfill, north of the city of Winnipeg, said officials. Authorities had been searching for Harris, 39, and Marcedes … Read more

Is Trump reining in Musk after a cabinet showdown with secretaries?

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Trump says cabinet will cut staff with Musk ‘watching’ US President Donald Trump called a meeting of his cabinet secretaries on Thursday to discuss Elon Musk and his efforts to slash government spending and personnel numbers. It turned heated, according to media reports. Musk accused Secretary of State Marco Rubio of failing to cut enough … Read more

How six Bulgarians did Russia’s dirty work from the UK

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Chris Bell BBC News Investigations Tom Beal BBC News Investigations Daniel De Simone BBC News Investigations Correspondent BBC Roman Dobrokhotov is used to looking over his shoulder. The Russian journalist’s investigations into Vladimir Putin’s regime – one of which unmasked the agents responsible for the 2018 Salisbury poisonings – have made him a target of … Read more

Time Use Survey 2024 shows Indian women unfairly burdened by housework

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Cherylann Mollan BBC News, Mumbai Jio Studios / Twitter The film Mrs was criticised by men’s rights groups A new Bollywood film – Mrs – has once again laid bare a stark reality: even in well-educated households in India a woman’s role is often confined to unpaid domestic work. The protagonist, married to a gynaecologist, … Read more

Why Ireland’s politicians believe they can influence Washington

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Getty Images President Donald Trump will receive a bowl of shamrock again this year St Patrick’s Day is associated with its fair share of traditions, from wearing a sprig of shamrock, to attending a church service to sipping one (or several) pints of stout. For politicians from the island of Ireland there’s one other annual … Read more

The woman championing disability rights on an island where inequity is rife

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Gemma Handy Reporter, St John’s, Antigua Courtesy of Good Humans 268 Joshuanette Francis was diagnosed with osteoarthritis Subscribers to Joshuanette Francis’s YouTube channel – set up to document her journey after being diagnosed with osteoarthritis at just 24 – did not see the tears. Neither were they privy to the days when she tackled the … Read more

Trump says Ukraine ‘more difficult’ to deal with than Russia

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Tom Bateman State Department correspondent Watch: ‘I think we’re doing very well with Russia’ US President Donald Trump has said he is finding it “more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine” than Russia in attempts to broker peace between the two nations. The US is “doing very well with Russia”, and “it may be easier … Read more